Barreirinhas & Lençoís

Right after the sand dunes in Jericoacoara I visited the sand dunes of Lençóis. Seems like this is the only thing to do in the northeast of Brazil.

I spent 3 nights in this lovely hostel called Casa do Professor. After a long journey where I had to take 5 different buses, I decided to relax on my first day before I try to book any tours to the dunes.
Relaxing is overrated, isn’t it? I spent half a day to find some new swimming trunks and a new towel. Unfortunately I forgot to take this two items with me when I left Jericoacoara. After two hours, I finally found some trunks but no micro fiber towel. Once I returned to the hostel I bumped into a Brazilian girl who used to live in Zurich for a couple years. She sold me her second towel for a very fair price. On the same day the hostel owner could arrange a full day tour to dunes for the following day. It was such a lucky day after two rather bad days.

On my second I got up at 7 o’clock in the morning and waited for the tour guide to pick me up. We were 6 tourists in one of this 4x4 Toyota Hilux Safari vehicles. After an hour driving through Caju plantations we finally arrived the dunes. A short walk on the sand and we found ourselves in front of a pond. Due to this brutal hot weather everyone just got rid of their clothes and jumped into the water. An hour or two in this area and the morning trip came to it’s end. We returned to the city were they dropped me at a buffet livre place. I ate some lunch took a nap back on my hostel and a soon after that I went for the afternoon activity. Same direction, different water pools plus the sunset view on the highest sand hill in this area. You won’t see many sunsets like that, absolutely incredible.Read more